Safety-truck for railway-cars



(No Model.) I A D. M. KIRKPATRICK.

SAFBTYTRUGK PoR RAILWAY GARS. A No. 272,267. Y Patented' Feb.. 13|` 1883.

i ""IL@ UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' DAVID MARION KIRKPATRIOK, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

SAFETY-TRUCK FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

SIIEEGIEICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 272,267, dated February 13, 1883.

Applica-tion fiieanecember 12,1882. (No model.)

To auw/1,0m t may concern.'

Beit known that I, DAVID MARION KIRK- PATRIGK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Safety Attachment to Oar- Trucks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates toa safety attachment or bed that is to be applied to a car-truck to prevent the car from being derailed, and has for its object to provide a simple and edicient device that can be readily applied to any kind of cars or car-trucks.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view Of a car-truck equipped with my4 safety attachment.` Fig. 2 is an endview of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the safety-hed detached.

Referring to the drawings,A designates the truck, which may be of any desired construction, carrying the wheels B, and having the arched bars C D at each side.

E designates a number of crossrods that are arranged between the pairs of wheels and at the ends of the truck. These cross-bars are suspended some inches above the' rails by suitable brace or bracket rods, F,.that extend from the crossrods up, and are secured to the arched bars of the truck, and the ends of the crossbars` project some distance over the rails, a downwardly-extending flange, G, being provided at their outer ends, which corresponds with the flange ot' the wheels. s To the cross-bars E are secured a series of longitudinal plates, H, that are of sufficient width to serve the function'of runners in case` of accident. These plates H are arranged in parallel pairs, one pair being at each side of the truck and inclosingthe wheels at its side. The ends I of runners H are preferably beveled, to facilitate their operation incase of accident, and they may also be provided with rollers on their under surface.

The operation and advantages of my invention are obvious. Should a car equipped with my improved safety attachment jump or leave the track, it will be caught by the flanges of the safety-bed to prevent serious lateral displacement, and the runner-plates, which will then support the car, will be drawn over the rails until a stop ensues. In passing over a broken or displaced ,rail or other obstruction that will cause the wheels to 'leave the track, the car will simply drop down ou the safetybed and the runner-plates of the latter will slide and support the car, so that damage to the latter is obviated. As the safety-bed holds the oar near and parallel with the track, it can be readily replaced in position on the rails.

I claim as my inventionl. The herein-described improved safety attachment to car-trucks, comprising, in combination, the pairs of longitudinal dat runners H, the crOss-rods'E, arranged at each end Ot' therunners H, audintermediately thereon, with theirends projecting some ydistance from the latter, and turned down to some distance below the said runners to form anges corresponding to the ange of the wheel, and bracket-rods F, extending from the cross rods up, as set forth. y

2. The combination, with a car-truck, of transverse rods suspended therefrom, so as to be some distance above the track and project out over the same, the ends of the rods being pro vided with downwardly-extendin g ian ges, and pairs Of longitudinally-disposed runner-plates arranged at each side the wheels, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID MARION KIRKPATRICK. 

